Babe Ruth is still the greatest baseball player

August 12, 2010

In today's day and age of the A-Rods hitting 600-plus home runs, I'd like to talk about the greatest baseball player who ever lived.

Forget about drugs or steroids, his diet consisted of beer and hot dogs. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall and 210 pounds, and wasn't the glamorous looking baseball player like you have today. He had a big gut and had skinny legs. This was the great George Herman Ruth, better known as the "Babe."

And forget about hitting 714 home runs in his career, or that he hit 60 home runs in one season (1927) — more than any other American League baseball club that year. No, I want to talk about his pitching record.

The Babe actually pitched 10 seasons. His total combined wins and losses were an amazing 94-46. In his third and fourth year of pitching, he had records of 23-12, and 24-13. At the end of his career, his earned run average was an amazing 2.28. In 1916 his ERA was a phenomenal 1.75. And he never had a losing pitching season.